8 Years

We love eight-year-olds! They’re just the right age for all kinds of fun. They still love the pretend play they’ve been enjoying for years, yet they’re also ready to move ahead into more advanced toys and learning. All of these toys and activities will appeal to their natural sense of fun and wonder.

Hop aboard the sleigh and join Anna and Olaf as they pay a visit to Queen Elsa’s beautiful ice palace for some frosty fun! What will they do first? Play hide and seek behind the secret staircase, or go skating around the castle? They could ski down the ice hill or prepare frozen treats in the castle’s ice cream bar and then get ready for a picnic in the snow under the magnificent icicle tree. It’s all up to you!

Discover, predict, experiment, and see science in action! These real science tools are perfectly sized for little hands. Put this powerful assortment of resources right to work with the accompanying selection of hands-on science activity cards. In this kit you'll have accurate measurement markings to support rigorous investigations.

Your child will be encouraged to wonder and question with 10 double-sided Activity Cards that reinforce science process skills, living and nonliving things, physical science, senses and more! This kit includes a durable, unbreakable beaker, a magnifying glass, a funnel, an eyedropper, a flask, tweezers, goggles, a large 6" test tube and stand, 2 small test tubes with lids and stand, plus an Activity Guide.

Attract young scientists to the wonder of magnetism with this award winning magnet set! Little ones can explore and learn about how magnets attract and repel with the various chunky, brightly coloured magnets. Move the ladybugs through the leaf maze and enjoy other playfully educational activities following the included guide and activity cards.

This set is an engaging science toy, a perfect gift to make learning fun! A great activity for play dates, the classroom, birthday parties or any time!

Celebrate the most romantic holiday of all with these charming and whimsical Valentine tattoos. You can adorn your arms, legs, face and other body parts with ten adorable tattoos, including a little girl wearing heart-rimmed glasses, a kitten with a Valentine basket of hearts, an angel holding a heart, an arrow through a string of hearts, a lighting bolt through a heart of stars, and 5 more. You'll love decorating yourself and friends with these safe temporary tattoos.

Bring out the Mechanical Designer in Your Child with this Great Meccano Metal Construction Set! Meccano Super Construction Set is packed with over 640 pieces of shiny steel girders, plates, nuts and bolts, wheels, a motor and everything you need to build cars, helicopters, machines, towers and other creations that move or create your own designs. Detailed assembly instructions for 15 models and suggestions for 10 more. One model can be built at a time.

Learning money and basic math skills comes to life with this talking, interactive cash register. Students will have fun practicing coin identification, addition, subtraction and place value as they play four featured games that increase in difficulty as players advance their math skill levels. Also great for pretend play exercises and learning basic calculator skills. Ring up the fun! The real value is learning! Comes with Canadian money.

People of earth, transform your voice with this electronic voice transformer! This cool neon coloured voice transformer is transparent so that you can see all of electronic components inside. Press and hold down the button while you speak into the transformer and your voice becomes either a futuristic robot, spacey alien or out of this world spaceman!

A fun gift for little ones who love acting out plays, singing songs and surprising themselves and their pals with a different voice. Bring your voice transformer to the big game or your next Birthday party and be heard in a whole new way!

Requires one 9V battery. (INCLUDED)

Each sold separately, ships in assorted colours based on availability.

Combine beading and knitting with Rainbow Knitting Kit from Bead Bazaar! This great kit for beginners comes equipped with a booklet that will give you fun ideas of ways to embellish your knitting with buttons and beads to make it unique and fun. With this neat kit knitting will be fun, easy and stylish!

Includes 8 skeins of yarn, wooden knitting spool, a pair of size 5.5 mm knitting needles, assorted beads, buttons, cotton strings, as well as an instructions and idea booklet.

Her doll can go shopping for glamorous gowns, fancy handbags, and high-fashion hats in her very own boutique! She can set up shop with a fun and fancy boutique tabletop and dress rack for displaying items, plus a chandelier and decorative posters to add pizzazz. The book includes ideas to create jaw-dropping, no-sew dresses and accessories from shirt sleeves or other simple clothing items she no longer uses, and the included receipt pad, store signs, and business cards, plus other shopping supplies, create a realistic luxury store experience!

Girls can treat their dolls to fun and fancy hairstyles on every occasion--from a field trip flip to a dancing updo. Kit includes a styling book, a pretty purple hairbrush and colorful elastics, plus a case that converts into a styling center. Plus, a 25-minute DVD shows step-by-step instructions for extra hairstyles! With these styling secrets and doll-sized accessories, this doll salon will be a sure-fire success!

The first edition of Ultimate Weird But True was an instant hit in Fall 2011. Now the second edition has even more zany fun! Ultimate Weird But True 2 has a fun cover with lots of sparkle, is packed with cool photos, and features the same dynamic design that made the first book such a hit. Content is all-new, with new chapter titles and even more too-strange-to-believe stories, such as: the world's most expensive hamburger, which breaks the bank at $295; the world's largest chocolate sculpture; duck fashion models; and many more oddities.

What if dinosaurs had not died out? What if whole colonies of the prehistoric beasts had survived on a remote island off the coast of South America? The latest adventure in the best-selling ’Ology series offers young dinosaur lovers a tantalizing taste of what that would be like. The year is 1907, and young adventurer Raleigh Rimes is on an expedition to South America with real-life explorer Percy Fawcett. There he discovers the unimaginable: living dinosaurs roaming the rain forest! Presented as a journal detailing their extraordinary (and hairraising) encounters with the amazing beasts -- fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex, pack-hunting allosauruses, predatory velociraptors, armored triceratops, and other species -- Dinosaurology is filled with flaps and booklets offering dinosaur lore, along with such novelties as a sample of dinosaur skin, a pouch of ground stegosaurus horn, and more.

Could dinosaurs still roam the earth? In the newest discovery in the 'Ology series, readers come face-to-face with living, breathing dinosaurs.

Yeeeee-hah! Boynton goes Country! With three Gold Record albums and a Grammy nomination to her credit, Boynton now brings you FROG TROUBLE, a terrific CD and illustrated songbook of her new and wildly original Country songs. And they’re sung by a truly amazing roster of Country Music’s biggest and brightest stars: Here’s Brad Paisley with Copycat, Dwight Yoakam singing I’ve Got a Dog, Alison Krauss on End of a Summer Storm, Ben Folds rocking Broken Piano, Darius Rucker with Beautiful Baby. The lonesome-cowboy title track is performed by the low-voiced moody rocker Mark Lanegan (yes, of Queens of the Stone Age.) Add Josh Turner, Fountains of Wayne, Ryan Adams, Linda Eder, and quickly rising Country star Kacey Musgraves—all accompanied by Nashville’s finest instrumentalists, and WHOA. You’ve got yourself some mighty fine music, with a whole lot of gumption and heart.

A COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUM FOR KIDS AND EVERYONE

Boynton-illustrated songbook with full-length music CD

12 new songs with a whole lot of gumption and heart

Cowboy, Country, Rockabilly, Honkytonk, Bluegrass, Blues

Retro sound with a TRULY AMAZING All-Star Artist roster!

Lyrics by Sandra Boynton

Music written and produced by Sandra Boynton and Michael Ford

Recorded in Nashville with renowned session musicians

Boynton & Ford have written and produced three Gold Records

Boynton has a Grammy Nomination for Philadelphia Chickens, which was also a #1 New York Times Bestseller

This incredible, original story captures all of the humour, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school — all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, doodles, and newspaper clippings. The setting? A galaxy far, far away . . .

Roan's one dream is to leave home and attend Pilot Academy like his older brother, father, and grandfather. But just as Roan is mysteriously denied entrance to Pilot School, he is invited to attend Jedi Academy — a school that he didn't apply to and only recruits children when they are just a few years old. That is, until now.

This inventive novel follows Roan's first year at Jedi Academy where, under the tutelage of Master Yoda, he learns that he possesses more strength and potential than he could have ever dreamed. Oh, and he learns other important things too — like how to make a baking soda volcano, fence with a lightsaber, slow dance with a girl, and lift boulders with the Force.

Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?

Ever wanted to design your own Hexbug? Now kids can do just that with VEX Robotics! The core of this simple, flexible product line is the VEX IQ system used in STEM programs and elementary and middle school robotics competitions around the world.

The build-it-yourself line of VEX Robotics kits fosters creative STEM learning through hands-on play by allowing children to construct their very own jumbo-sized HEXBUG and customize its programming. With VEX Robotics, kids as young as 8 can jump right in and snap these colorful robots together using the intuitive, tool-less components.

To create the VEX Robotics Strandbeast, young innovators start by constructing each half of the base and attaching a motor to both sides. Once the base system and the eight legs are in place, it’s time to bring the strandbeast to life by wiring the brain to the LED module, distance sensors, and motors using snap connectors, and then attaching the brain to the body. Once the brain and motors are attached and wired up, the final steps include adding on the bright blue leg pieces that illustrate this complex robot’s graceful, smooth-walking stride.

To program the robotic strandbeast, kids simply flip a series of switches on the robot’s brain, allowing for quick experimentation with different modes to determine how it reacts when the sensors are activated. There are 64 different programming options from which to choose! There are three drive modes: Standard Driver Mode where the kid drives the robot using the remote control, Autonomous Mode where the robot navigates itself using its sensors, and “Crazy” Autonomous mode that simulates the real, random wandering nature of a living creature!

Ever wanted to design your own Hexbug? Now kids can do just that with VEX Robotics! The core of this simple, flexible product line is the VEX IQ system used in STEM programs and elementary and middle school robotics competitions around the world.

The build-it-yourself line of VEX Robotics kits fosters creative STEM learning through hands-on play by allowing children to construct their very own jumbo-sized HEXBUG and customize its programming. With VEX Robotics, kids as young as 8 can jump right in and snap these colourful robots together using the intuitive, tool-less components.

To construct the VEX Robotics Spider, young innovators start by building the drive column, and then work to attach the six orange legs. Once the base and the legs are in place, it’s time to bring the spider to life by attaching the motors, distance sensor, LED module and brain using snap connectors. Once the brain and motors are attached and wired up, the final steps include adding on the bright orange body pieces that give the robot its flair, making it look like a Hexbug Spider!

To program the robotic spider, kids simply flip a series of switches on the robot’s brain, allowing for quick experimentation with different modes to determine how the spider reacts when the sensors are activated. There are 64 different programming options from which to choose! There are three drive modes: Standard Driver Mode where the kid drives the robot using the remote control, Autonomous Mode where the robot navigates itself using its sensors, and “Crazy” Autonomous that simulates the real, random wandering nature of a living creature!

Introducing the new singing sensations, DigiBirds! DigiBirds are colourful little interactive birds that sing to you! The DigiBirds mimic real birds through their head and beak movement while singing and tweeting. Blow on the DigiBird to start it tweeting or whistle for your bird to start singing! Can’t whistle? No problem, simply blow into the whistle included in the bird stand.

You can even collect more than 1 DigiBird and start a choir through the chorus mode! Simply change the setting on the bottom of your birds to chorus and they will magically synchronize to sing together.

The DigiBirds can sing 20 different songs to you. If 20 songs aren’t enough, you can access 14 additional songs through the free App for IOS Smartphone or Tablet. Play DigiBirds App mini-games to unlock the new songs.

Each sold separately. Ships in randomly selected, assorted colours and styles according to availability.

Includes 1 DigiBird.

Measures approximately 3.5" tall.

Requires 3 LR44 batteries (included).

Winner of the Girls Toy of the Year 2014 Award by the Australian Toy Association.